| Bushnell GPS BackTrack Personal Locator | 
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| Brand: Bushnell
Category: Sports
Buy New: $44.54 - $86.00 (On sale from $111.80)
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 830
Color: Green
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6 x 2
MPN: 34197
Model: BSHL-01
UPC: 029757360069
EAN: 0029757360069
ASIN: B001F7BL0U
Release Date: August 18, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Compact GPS personal locator with intuitive 2-button design | | • | Returns you to your car, home base, or anywhere else | | • | Stores up to 3 locations; fits easily in pocket or purse | | • | Weather-resistant; operates on 2 AAA batteries (not included) | | • | Includes lanyard for easy transport around your neck |
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Product Description
The Bushnell® Backtrack® personal locator offers you a compact size that stores easily in a pocket, pack, or purse. It stores and locates up to 3 locations and provides distance and direction back to your starting point. It utilizes a high-sensitivity SiRF Star III GPS receiver and includes a self-calibrating digital compass.
Amazon.com Product Description
There's nothing quite as refreshing as a good hike or snowshoe trip, but there's nothing quite as terrifying as getting lost on the trail. Enter the Bushnell GPS BackTrack personal locator, which gets you back to your car or home base safely and easily. The BackTrack is a breeze to use, with an intuitive two-button design that employs GPS technology in its most basic format. All you have to do is mark the location of your car, campsite, or anything else (the BackTrack stores up to three locations) and then forget it until it's time to return. At the end of the day, just select the stored location and the BackTrack will display the direction and distance to travel until you return. You can use it to locate a treestand or trailhead, to find your car in a crowded parking lot, even to rendezvous with a group. Plus, it's extremely compact, so you can stow it conveniently in your pocket, pack, or purse. The BackTrack is weather-resistant and operates on two AAA batteries (not included). It also comes with a lanyard for easy attachment. About Bushnell
Bushnell has been the industry leader in high-performance sports optics for more than 50 years. The company's guiding principle is to provide the highest quality, most reliable, and most affordable sports optics products on the market. Bushnell product lines enhance the enjoyment of every outdoor pursuit, including nature study, hunting, fishing, birding, and stargazing. Indoors, the company's binoculars bring the audience closer to the action in fast-moving sports or the fine arts at theaters and concerts.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 89
 BUSHNELL BACKTRACK August 31, 2010
T. Hugh Morrison
GREAT PRODUCT WE WILL USE THIS WHEN WE ARE IN VENICE TO HELP US FIND OUR WAY AROUND
 Gets you there August 25, 2010
Brad Hartman (Eastern AZ)
Actually bought this as a gift for brother and sister in law, they have a tendancy to get a little lost when hiking. They are not tech savy so thought I'd take it out and use it a little to make sure I understood it so I could answer their questions. It's easy to use and works great for finding your car in a large parking lot. The only problem I can see for them is it points the direction and gives the distance to the car or trailhead but it's straight line. So if they had hiked around to the otherside of a hill it would be telling them to go up over the hill instead of back around it. For the money it does what it's supposed to do and it's easy to use. Maybe if they get the hang of this one I will get them a GPS with maps for Christmas.
Never lost again August 9, 2010
Mike
I bicycle many miles and try new routes. When the GPS is set for home, I always know which turn to take. It would be nice if I could mount it on the bike.
Direction indicator is vague - common sense required. July 29, 2010
W. Davis (Templeton, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had my BackTrack for nearly 2 months now. Once you master what the 2 control buttons do, it's very simple to operate. It is quite accurate when identifying a location you've saved. I did a test by saving a spot in the middle of my front lawn. I turned the unit off, then turned it back on while standing a few feet away on the driveway. The BackTrack correctly identified that my saved location was about 5 yards away and it pointed in the correct direction. It helps if you are somewhat aware of your surroundings and can use some common sense along with the information displayed by the BackTrack in order to find your saved location.
I wouldn't rely too heavily on which way the direction arrow is pointing. When you're in the process of trying to return to a saved location, the direction arrow does not always point in the exact direction of your saved location. If you keep in mind that the direction indication is not exact, you'll find the BackTrack works quite well. The compass function works about as well as the direction finding indicator. When using the compass, the direction arrow points generally north. If an accurate compass is important to you, you might want to carry an old-fashioned magnetic compass as well.
Here are some important things to remember when using the BackTrack. Any time the unit is on, the back of the unit should be parallel with the ground. If you hold it like a compass, then drop your hand down to walk, then bring the unit back up level, your readings will probably not be accurate. Once the unit is powered off, you can put it into any orientation and the accuracy won't be affected. I made the mistake of accidentally not shutting off the unit before putting it in my pocket once. When I took it out again and powered it up, the compass was 180 degrees off. If you find the compass is that far off, walk in a figure-8 pattern a few times while holding the unit level and it should re-calibrate. If you have not moved a great distance since the last time you turned on your BackTrack, it does not take very long for it to get a satellite lock on its location. I've moved a couple of hundred miles, then turned the unit on and it took about a minute to lock in.
Even with the short-comings of the BackTrack, I am happy with it. For what the unit does, you can't beat the price.
Bushnell Backtracker July 28, 2010
BK
Simply to use, good accuracy and a great price . Purchased to use when riding on ATV Trails. At the parking lot, set the point and drive off. Along the trails, set two addition points. Easy return to parking lot or other two points.
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